Chapter Eighty-Nine: Visiting the Provincial City Again (Two Chapters in One)
Zhou Jiao didn't know that someone was discussing her tonight, she didn't think she was that powerful. It's just a smile when you know it.
This time, the son just fell asleep after feeding, and the mother-in-law also rested on the kang outside.
Zhang Guoqing was not at home one night, and she couldn't sleep, and he didn't feel anything when he left during the day. It would be the dead of night, and everyone would be terrified if there was movement outside.
The north blows on the window stickers, the brushing and the occasional dog barking makes her heart skip a beat. She knew that she lacked a sense of security, and with him, she was at ease.
The mother-in-law habitually blew out the oil lamp, and she didn't stop it. From today's words, I know that the public life is still difficult now, she will pay attention in the future, she can't toss like this, and she has to put away things when she buys, so as not to be eye-catching, this countryside is not without danger, it is that she has lived in one place for a long time, and she has not seen the public who should be seen. Secretly tell yourself to live inconspicuously.
She doesn't know yet, it's not that she doesn't want to be low-key, but that her parents and lovers spend their time on her, and there is nothing to make her low-key.
In the dark, she opened her eyes and thought about her future path, her future life, and her life would get better day by day, but she still had to prepare more, not afraid of 10,000, just in case.
Thinking of what her grandmother once said, and then remembering the sigh of the old man in the village, she subconsciously became nervous, if it was that day, she didn't dare to imagine what kind of day it would be to eat grass roots. She can't rely on others, her mother is a big spend, and her heart is like a child. When the real food/shortage comes, she has to prepare too much, and if there are more people to worry about, she has to prepare more.
In the early morning of the next day, the military horn sounded, Zhang Guoqing and Xiao Zhou started to run along the track, exercising with the soldiers, and their bodies were very comfortable after exercise. I ate breakfast in the army with everyone and didn't go to the canteen of the guest house.
Looking at these lovely people, looking at these passionate crowds, he was very unsettled, and he thought that he had fully integrated into this era. He was happy for the pride of the country in his heart, and the selfishness for profit in his heart was not ready to move.
He thought that maybe he had to think about a lot of things in his life, and went back to talk to Jiaojiao about his feelings, only Jiaojiao could understand him.
Lin Lishan took Xizi to accompany the old man to eat, returned to the room to tidy up his clothes, Lin Lishan said goodbye to the old man, with the help of Zhang Guoqing, easily saw that all the items purchased last night were put in the car, and looked at the time and waited directly at the door for the arrival of Fang Jianmei's mother and son.
"Xiao Wu, you go upstairs, don't wait, your grandfather will set off in a while, go to accompany your grandfather early, and stay by your grandfather's side these days." Your grandfather praised you last night, and you did a good job. Do what you want to do yourself, if something goes wrong, don't worry, Mom still knows some contacts, you can rest assured to do your own thing. If you lack anything here, you can't go out, so tell Xiao Zhou and ask him to find someone to help you take it, and you don't have to go out. Go upstairs, you see that the two mothers and sons are Fang Jianmei and her youngest son. You don't need to know her, Xiaofei is your buddy, go up. ”
Zhang Guoqing understood that this was an acquaintance, and it was not easy to refuse if he came to the door to ask for help after he got acquainted. The Fang family has Xiaofei here. They weren't up to the level he was up to.
"Okay, Mom, I'm going up, you drive carefully, and Jiaojiaona will tell her, let her rest assured that I'm fine, and I'll go back in a few days." Xizi, you have to be obedient with your grandmother, and tell your grandmother what you want to buy. After saying that, he looked at Kiko and nodded in agreement, and then saw that the other party was also close to here, and he left and went upstairs.
Lin Lishan watched Fang Jianmei come over from a distance, opened the car door directly, let Xizi get in the car, and drove over slowly.
"Get in the car and let your son sit in the back with Kiko. Come forward, we will talk, and you will show the way. ”
Fang Jianmei originally wanted to come over to meet the old man earlier, but now that the car has also driven over, she can only get in the car, "I haven't even talked to the old man, and so are you, I'm really anxious." Why don't you put so many things in the guest house in the back, you won't just go back and not return to the military region, right? ”
"Hehe, I got up early in the morning, I wanted to pick you up at your house, but I saw you coming from afar, so I didn't just come over. The old man has been here for a few days, and you have a chance to meet him. I'll send you back directly. I won't stop and drive back. The child is waiting at home, and he will be worried if he is late. Lin Lishan drove the car and replied with a smile.
Fang Jianmei glanced at her angrily, "The bag I brought contains a military bag and two pairs of military boots, and I don't know how big Jiaojiao wears, so I took the generic 37 yards, and a pair of 44 yards for your son-in-law, I can't wear it and there is no way, this is also difficult to find." There are also two military coats, both of which are plus-size, too big to cover themselves. I didn't go to anyone else to ask for anything else, and when you return to Beijing, there will be nothing. Are you going to the Friendship Mall? ”
"Thanks, it's going to the Friendship Mall, the supply and marketing cooperatives asked the same street last night, where do you want to go first?"
Fang Jianmei thought about it or the supply and marketing cooperative, "Go to the supply and marketing cooperatives first, there are few people in the morning, so it's easy to buy things, and people are squeezed to death every day." I'll buy more while you're driving and put it in front. ”
Lin Lishan nodded, "Okay, you tell me where to stop, let's go to the supply and marketing cooperatives first." Xizi and others will remember to follow grandma, but don't squeeze away. ”
"Grandma, I know, I'll be with my brother later, and if I can't find you, I'll wait for you at the gate. I can't lose it. I just can't find it, so I will report to the military district guest house to find my uncle. ”
Lin Lishan laughed, "You can't lose it, if you lose it, I won't agree to let you come out next time." I will grab grandma's clothes. ”
Fang Jianmei listened to the two of them with a smile, "It's okay, there are not so many people, we won't go in if there are too many people." ”
After parking Fang Jianmei's position, Lin Lishan locked the car and took them into the supply and marketing cooperative, and now there are not many people who have just started to work, and they are crowded on weekdays and holidays.
There is nothing to buy, except to buy some food, she also took Xizi's hand and followed Fang Jianmei to look slowly, watching her buy things, and if she met someone she thought was suitable for Jiaojiao, she would buy some. Fang Jianmei was carrying a large bag and a small bag, and she was still looking for something else, the supply and marketing cooperatives were more troublesome than the Friendship Mall, and she had to run to the other side to pay and come back to get things if she wanted to issue an invoice.
Lin Lishan looked at the fabric very well, bought some more, bought two big red hot water bottles, a kettle, looked at the cabinet next to the big cotton shoes, and picked two pairs for Jiaojiao to wear at home, it just so happened that she could also wear it these days, and she didn't know the number of small five yards, think about asking Xizi, Xizi really knew the number of 42 yards, and took two pairs to Xiao Wu, and saw that the cloth ticket he took from Fang Jianmei was gone, so he didn't look at it at the counter, and finally took Xizi and Fang Jianmei to win the round.
"Shanshan, let's put the car in the car first, let's come in, I can't lift it"
Lin Lishan raised her eyebrows and took her back, which was really a lot. The four of them returned to the car and rearranged the bills. I bought everything I found that I should have bought. Lin Lishan saw that she was hesitant, so she got out of the car decisively, took Xizi and waited for them to get out of the car, locked the car, and then went inside.
This time she didn't follow her, and took Kiko to find the child's things. She looked at Fang Jianmei's youngest son, who was following them, and asked him to see what he liked and buy it together, but the two children were quite sensible, but they didn't say what they liked. She thought about it carefully and decided to go to the bookstore and buy a few villain books for Kiko and them.
There is a sugar ticket in my hand, also known as hard candy, think about buying two Sixi pastries, this one is put in the Jiaojiao house first, in case the mother-in-law comes, it is good to bring it back to her old man.
After waiting for almost an hour, I finally saw Fang Jianmei, and after getting in the car, I went directly to the Friendship Mall.
Lin Lishan always remembered that she didn't buy a raincoat and rain boots last night, so she went in and asked if there was any, and followed the salesperson's fingers and finally found it on the daily necessities counter. I looked at the color and style, and quickly selected two sets.
Standing in front of the fabric counter again, Lin Lishan looked at the fabrics carefully, but in the end, the salesperson couldn't see it, and pulled her to squat down to look at the fabric at the bottom of the counter.
"Shhhh The price is much lower, you pick it yourself. You saw all of them on the counter yesterday, and you bought them all one by one. ”
Lin Lishan smiled embarrassedly, and found that many of them were only enough to make one or two pieces, no wonder they didn't return it. The two of them muttered secretly, fortunately, this place is not like the supply and marketing cooperative, which is crowded and very idle.
Lin Lishan was satisfied and carried a large package of fabric back to the car.
It had been more than an hour since Fang Jianmei came out, and she had also bought a bunch of things, and put them in the back of the car, Lin Lishan and she discussed going to the bookstore to have a look and buy some villain books for the children.
"Okay, why not, I'm going to find a few books, you don't know if you're bored here when you're fine, I finally bought a good one today. There are still 300 overseas Chinese remittance vouchers, all of which are given to you. I'll need to find someone when the time comes. You don't have to give me money, or I won't give it to you. Didn't you confiscate the overseas Chinese remittance vouchers you gave me in the capital before? You are driving, I will help you put it away, and you can take these bills back to Jiaojiao to see if they are useful. ”
"Then you're welcome, I'll invite your mother and son to the restaurant for a meal, and I won't go back to the guest house to eat, the old man is busy today and can't see him." What do you two little ones like to eat? ”
"Let's go back, I'll let my child's father buy vegetables today, you have come to the Northeast, why do I want to invite you to eat."
Lin Lishan hurriedly refused, "Don't, what do we have to do with it, in a compound, still playing this set?" I'll go to your house to eat when I come back next time, and it's not bad to put the dishes at your house first. When we go to your place, it's dark and we can't drive, and if we don't go back, it is estimated that someone will find the military region tomorrow. Jiaojiao told me, when I go back today, you didn't see that I brought bodyguards, right? ”
Fang Jianmei laughed when she heard this, "Okay, let's go to the store to eat, and it will be troublesome to go back and burn it." But if you want to go, you have to treat me, say okay first, otherwise, won't you make a joke for me in front of the little sisters in the future? ”
"Okay, just please, I'm not afraid you can't afford it. The bookstore has arrived, the little ones, go, hurry up and find more books and leave, take what you like, I'll pay for this, no need to fight. ”
When you enter the bookstore, there are only two or three salesmen, and it is quiet, there are no people, and people don't like to read books very much nowadays?
Follow the signs to the children's books section. This time Kiko didn't say that she wouldn't read books, her eyes were shining and staring at those books, and the two of them followed the children, one helping the other, just right.
Lin Lishan didn't buy it when she saw Xizi, "Xizi, grandma knows that you are afraid of grandma spending money, but books are not afraid of spending money, this book, you can read it many times after reading it once, he is different from other things, how expensive the book is and it is worth it, you can learn something, buy it with confidence." We don't know when we'll come to the provincial capital next time. Villain books can show you pictures for your younger siblings, and these books can be read for you slowly. ”
Xizi thought about it and finally chose six books, and finally chose two of the six books, Lin Lishan looked relieved, and directly stepped forward to ask for them all. This time Kiko didn't delay and smiled happily, this kid really likes books.
Lin Lishan went to the villain book and picked some of them, all of them were packed, plus she also picked some for Fang Jianmei's old son, to check out, it was really expensive, just these books cost more than 20 yuan, a month's salary for workers in the city, that is, she is not short of money, otherwise she really can't afford to buy books.
Ran to the restaurant, the four people were hungry, after lunch, leaned on the chair to rest for a while, seeing that it was not early, the four of them slowly swallowed the car. Lin Lishan drove them to the family home, she didn't plan to go upstairs again, and seeing that there was still a package, she hurriedly called Fang Jianmei.
Fang Jianmei looked at her funny: "This is delicate, I didn't know she gave birth to a child before, so I didn't buy eggs." These you bring to her. Don't worry, I'm not polite to you, when my eldest gets married, I will definitely let you give a red envelope. Not anything valuable, just malt milk and some snacks. I guess you're ready for the milk powder, so I didn't take that. ”
"Okay, I'll take it, I've collected a lot of good things from you, and I wouldn't have come to you if I knew it. Take your children back early for the Chinese New Year. I won't be coming to your house this time when I go back to Beijing. You all usually go to work, and you may not be there when you come, and I will put the car directly in the military region when the time comes. ”
"Okay, see you in the capital, drive carefully, the old son and the younger brother say goodbye. Xizi, next time your uncle comes to the provincial capital, let him take you to our house to play. Know the way? ”
"Know the way, little brother, I'm leaving, thank you for the gift, I like it very much. Goodbye, Auntie. ”
Lin Lishan put the package directly on the car, "Let's go, you guys also go upstairs." With a wave of her hand, she drove away in the car, she bought everything she should have bought, and she was anxious to see Jiaojiao.
"Xizi, we're going back, do you still have a provincial capital that you haven't wanted to go to? It's convenient for us to drive, you think about it, let's go to the guest house now to see if they are not there, and if they are not there, tell the waiter comrade and let him pass it on. ”
"Okay, Grandma, I don't have anywhere else I want to go, let's go home."
"Okay, listen to Kiko." drove the car to the guest house, and sure enough, it was not there, Lin Lishan asked people to convey that they were driving back now.
Lin Lishan tidied up the things on the back seat, so as not to drive and shake and fall down on Xizi, and wrapped him in two military coats on the seat, "Wrap it in a coat, if you want to sleep, sleep first, the ones below are fabrics, and it doesn't hurt to fall down." The small bag was filled with chocolate and toffee, and I wanted to eat it myself. ”
After saying that, he nodded, wrapped himself in his coat, and sat there.
Lin Lishan began to drive in front, there was nothing to do along the way, at first Xizi would talk to her, and slowly fell asleep.